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" The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. "
On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional ... - Page 170
by Charles Bucke - 1823
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Black Nile: Mungo Park and the Search for the Niger

Peter Ludwig Brent - 1977 - 232 pages
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The Uses of Poetry

Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 pages
...a sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these: The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white...mother to bring him milk; No wife to grind his corn. Let us pity the white man; No mother has he, etc. (P. 80 According to the Chadwicks the same facility...
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Distant Voices: Poetry of the Preliterate

Denys Thompson - 1978 - 172 pages
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Mungo Park, the African Traveler

Kenneth Lupton - 1979 - 318 pages
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Journal of American Folklore, Volume 16

1979 - 312 pages
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Abridgement of Mental Philosophy: (1861) : a Facsimile Reproduction

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1979 - 600 pages
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Fantastic Invasion: Notes on Contemporary Africa

Patrick Marnham - 1980 - 300 pages
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Komparatistische Hefte, Issues 1-6

1980 - 758 pages
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Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the Mind

Benjamin Rush - 1981 - 770 pages
...sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. — 'The winds roared, and the rains fell. — The poor...bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. Chorus . Let us pity the white man; no mother has he, &c. , &c. ' Trifling as this recital may appear to the...
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